A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Heaven means to be one with God.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

God to me is love.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.